Andy Parks Live From The Washington Times

It’s not just Haitians, and it’s not just Texas where the border seems out of control. Stephen Dinan explains how the situation in Yuma is different from Del Rio. Then, Homeland Security paid more than $330,000 for a software license for the last two years for a system that hadn’t functioned since 2018, the department’s inspector general said in a new report Monday. Stephen explains what that means and how it happened.

Andy takes a look at the high drama of the week. Timing is everything, as they say on the set of The View. Meanwhile, voting by mail is becoming permanent in California. "Cheat by mail," courtesy of Governor Gavin Newsom. Plus, AOC cried, Sen. Schumer whined, and more accusations came up against Cuomo... not that Cuomo, the other Cuomo. And finally, Andy's whopper of the week.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas insisted this week that the border has not deteriorated under President Biden, and shot down claims by the former Border Patrol chief who said things are worse than he’s seen in nearly 30 years of service. As Stephen Dinan reports, he insisted this was the case despite the images being shown and numbers being reported. Also, Stephen tells us the latest on Republican investigators demanding answers from the FAA over its decision last week to impose a ban on drone flights near the Texas migrant camp that sprang up on the banks of the Rio Grande.

Is this a crazy week or what? Andy looks at the big headlines of the week and shakes his head. So, the border is under control? Does that look like control to you? "Earth to Alejandro Mayorkas: These people came here because they see how easy it is to cross the border under the Biden administration." And wasn't the Vice President supposed to be helping? Meanwhile, the mayor of San Francisco parties it up, maskless in a nightclub. The mayor of Chicago wants to refund the police department. And "America First" is no more.

A Texas county declared a state of disaster this week over illegal immigrants and COVID-19 exposure and adopted a policy barring them from being transported into or through the jurisdiction until they’ve gotten a new test showing they’re free of the coronavirus. As Stephen Dinan reports, one Texas county said it has determined unvaccinated and untested illegal immigrants are a real threat to public health. The county said it doesn’t have the facilities to handle a major outbreak. also, more on Secretary of State Blinken telling reporters the majority of Afghans airlifted out of Kabul in last month’s emergency evacuation weren’t vetted before getting on the planes.

Washington Times national reporter Valerie Richardson joins Andy with the reaction from the California recall effort against Governor Gavin Newsom. As Val reports, Democrats tout the recall defeat as win for Biden and a loss for Trump. But first, Andy takes a look at vaccine mandates and the mystery of the disappearing face masks among the left. Andy is sick of the "rules for me but not for thee." On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Andy says George W. Bush was just pitiful for blaming President Trump. "Wasn't it you that got us into that war?"

America has had countless waves of migrants, but rarely has the country been as eager to receive them as it has for the tens of thousands of Afghans who are being airlifted into the country. Charities and resettlement agencies say they have been overwhelmed by the response, with offers of open arms, leads on apartments and a flood of supplies. Stephen Dinan joins Andy with details. Plus more on deaths of illegal immigrants, Republicans demanding answers on vetting Afghans being brought into the US, the number of sanctuary jails in the country and much more.

Andy takes a look at the big stories of the week, including what exactly is happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue these days. At the top of the list, the awful move to get out of Afghanistan. But also, the border, the economy, COVID, and on and on. When even NBC's Chuck Todd acknowledges how bad it is... you know it's bad. And the poll numbers show it. Agents at the border have been warned to be on the lookout for terrorists taking the 'easy way' in to the country. And in COVID-19 news, a virus becomes a political tool, which makes it mostly impossible to believe anything you hear coming out of the White House.

As Stephen Dinan reports, both of Social Security’s benefit programs, Old-Age Survivors Insurance for older adults, and Disability Insurance for those unable to work, failed the trustees’ tests of short-range financial adequacy. That means the revenue is crossing a critical fiscal threshold as the program begins a slide toward depletion of its trust funds in little more than a decade. In 2034, payments will likely cover only 78% of what is promised to recipients. Stephen also explains his story on how a convicted rapist reached the U.S. on an Afghan evacuation flight.

President Trump made the rules and had no problem targeting terrorists. Unlike President Biden, who not only highlights our weaknesses but hands over the identities of the Afghans who helped us over the last 20 years. How could he possibly call this withdrawal an "extraordinary success?" Is this really "Mission Accomplished" for him? The American people are seeing that Donald Trump was right. And, yet another edition of "Rules for thee but not for me" from our favorite Democrats.

The Donald Trump plan lives. As Stephen Dinan reports, the Supreme Court rebuffed President Biden’s request to halt a lower court order that revives the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” border policy, effectively forcing the new administration to make a “good faith” effort to push illegal immigrants back across the border. The ruling is a devastating blow to the Biden team, which had made erasing Trump-era immigration policies a major hallmark of its first seven months in office. Plus, about 20 million ballots mailed out for the November general election were not returned, the federal government’s Election Assistance Commission says in a report detailing the successes and hiccups of the voting. Stephen explains what that means.

First up, Andy takes a look at the big stories of the week and says President Biden has some serious issues, in more ways than one. And then, Washington Times White House Reporter Jeff Mordock joins Andy with more on Biden and Afghanistan. As Jeff reports, President Biden struggled to recover his shaken leadership at home and abroad this week, rejecting calls from allies and lawmakers to extend next week’s deadline for evacuating Afghanistan as an emboldened Taliban made fresh demands for a U.S. exit.

As Stephen Dinan reports, the Biden administration is rushing to build an immigration system that will decide who gets to stay in the U.S. after promising to airlift tens of thousands of Afghan citizens out of their home country. It’s a serious risk, yet the effort is underway. Normally, it takes years to go through the Special Immigrant Visa process. It's now being fast-tracked and could bring hundreds of thousands of Afghan citizens to the United States. Plus, more from the southern border including Border Patrol agents coming under fire from the Mexican side of the border.

Andy is back! In Afghanistan, there are some brutal images coming out of the effort to get our troops out. The Taliban is running the country, Biden is depending on the Taliban to help evacuate Americans despite saying there was no way this could happen. Americans are stuck there, the Taliban are going door to door, and there's a "fair amount" of American weaponry left behind. So much for gun control. China and Russia are watching. Is this the biggest embarrassment for the U.S. ever? Plus, what's really going on at the U.S. border this week?

House Democrats introduced a spending bill that aims to wipe away large chunks of President Trump’s legacy, including restrictions on deploying agency personnel to police protests and clawing back more than $2 billion in border wall money that lawmakers had already approved. As Stephen Dinan reports, the Biden administration has reversed many executive actions under Trump, but the Democrats’ bill begins to unravel the legislative policies the previous president won. Meanwhile, the grim reality of death is a near-daily occurrence for those along the border, where smugglers and even fellow migrants are all too ready to abandon those who can’t keep up in the desert or leave them to drown if they struggle to cross the Rio Grande.

Give more money to the police and let them do their jobs. That seems like basic common sense, unless you are a Democrat. The idea of defunding the police made its way to the New York mayoral race, but the problems they are having counting votes in New York is overshadowing that message. And the debate over Critical Race Theory heats up in school board meetings across the country. Is it time to simply start over with the public school system? And, we take yet another look at COVID-19, mask mandates, young people taking vaccines and where we go from here.

Andy Parks is joined by Stephen Dinan with the latest on his series on border smugglers, 'Dollars over danger: Inside the mind of a smuggler." As Stephen reports, most smugglers say they just need the cash, and some offer sad stories about their circumstances. After years of tracking smuggling cases, Stephen takes a look at what motivates people to get involved and what they say when they are caught. In case after case reviewed by The Washington Times, those arrested in the U.S. on smuggling charges are repeat offenders and are often given a break the first or second time.

From the newsroom of The Washington Times, Andy Parks once again digs into the "dumb things Democrats do" in Washington. From the jump to conclusions at a Pride parade in Florida, to Atlanta's crime spike being blamed on Republicans. And, the "threats" and divisiveness coming from the Pledge of Allegiance caused another mayor to call a city council member "out of order." Maybe the liberal mayors across the country need to take a long, hard look in the mirror.

Washington Times White House reporter Jeff Mordock sits down with Andy Parks with details on the new Biden crime strategy just ahead of the announcement. As Jeff reports, the administration says it would more strictly enforce federal gun laws, help cities and states hire more police officers and promote community policing to try to curb an increase in deadly crime as the homicide rate climbs to historic levels in major cities across the country. Republicans have seized on the issue, using it as a political cudgel to attack Democrats ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

Covering immigration like no other, Washington Times reporter Stephen Dinan is here to tell us about just a few of the big stories he broke this week. Up first, how social media is reshaping border crime. As Stephen reports, apps such as TikTok, Snapchat, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have upended the smuggling world. Connecting migrants with drivers, which used to be tricky in remote areas, is now as easy as messaging a GPS pin to the driver over one of the apps. Stephen also has a story about two soldiers arrested for alien smuggling in Texas after agents say they were caught with two illegal immigrants in the trunk of their car at a Border Patrol checkpoint, where they had hoped their military uniforms would get them through without inspection.